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“The Lost Boys of Portlandia" will premiere June 7 Jake Averi was 18 when he became homeless and on his own. He moved out of his foster home a month after aging out of the system and, despite his best efforts at getting and keeping his own apartment, ...

A conversation with the state lawmaker about her upcoming role on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners If you’re a voter in East Portland, chances are your choice for Multnomah County commissioner will be an easy one. State Rep. Jessica Vega Peder ...

With its $1,000 admission price, exclusionary Meet the Heat event promotes narrow agenda, protesters say Attendees to a fundraiser at the Portland Police Training Center in Northeast Portland the morning of Friday, April 1, were greeted by a group of prot ...

Erick Lyle discusses the legacy of a five-week San Francisco art fair aimed at bringing a community together in the midst of increasing displacement In April 2011, when San Francisco risked losing one of its most valued residents, Twitter, to Silicon Vall ...

In new book, Ethan Michaeli tells story of one of the nation’s most influential African-American newspapers When African-American lawyer and printer Robert Abbott started The Chicago Defender newspaper from his landlady’s kitchen table in 1905, he had one ...

Cascades Abortion Support Collective provides help before, during and after ending a pregnancy For Oregon residents seeking an abortion, finding a clinic or provider to perform one is easy. What is often harder to come by is the rest of the experience – t ...

Living Stages examines homelessness, housing instability in Theater of the Oppressed performances On a cold Saturday morning in a dance studio under the Hawthorne Bridge, a group of a dozen or so amateur actors gathered for the first of a two-day Theater ...

Director Stanley Nelson’s film 'The Black Panthers' sheds new light on the controversial party Before “Black Lives Matter” and “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” were chanted by activists across the U.S. “Black is Beautiful” and “Power to the People” echoed ...

The nonprofit responsible for dozens of public murals is about to create more Since 2013, summers in Portland have have experienced a public art renaissance. Each August, contemporary public murals pop up on once-blank walls throughout the city. The trans ...